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Senior Director of Engineering, NYT Cooking

thenewyorktimes · 30+ days ago
$216k+
Full-time
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The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

About the Role

NYT Cooking enriches people's lives by making them better cooks. The Cooking team takes great pride in matching the editorial expertise, guidance, and voice of The Times with superior digital functionality, design and service. We are a collaborative team that values inclusion, diversity and personal growth.

This role is the engineering lead for NYT Cooking’s line of business, and reports to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the New York Times. You will work with partners in Product, Design, and Data to help our Engineering team bring new user experiences to our Cooking product.

NYT Cooking is at the cusp of an exciting time as we expand our platforms and technical strategy to explore new and unique ways to meet the daily needs of home cooks of all levels, especially as user expectations change rapidly. You will lead technical initiatives to continue NYT Cooking’s path to be the indispensable companion for all home cooks. Specifically, you'll drive the execution of our product transformation to video, the creation of new search and personalization experiences, and evolve our publishing tools and workflow for a growing team of writers and editors.  Our product spans web and mobile applications.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office twice per week.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of engineers and managers to deliver the technical strategy for NYT Cooking and The New York Times overall
  • Communicate and translate goals of the NYT Cooking mission, ensuring that staff understand their purpose and deliverables
  • Coordinate with other technology teams across the company to create the right solutions, manage expectations, and keep strategies aligned
  • Coach and develop engineers and engineering managers
  • Create an inclusive team culture, recruit for, and retain extraordinary engineering talent
  • Work closely with NYT Cooking’s General Manager, Editorial team, and other functional leads to determine the right technical solutions to NYT Cooking’s product and editorial aspirations.
  • Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience leading large, complex, and motivated engineering teams 
  • 5+ years of experience managing managers
  • Experience running platforms at scale supporting consumer product development across web and mobile surfaces
  • Experience working in complex product organizations, supporting stakeholders with diverse and sometimes conflicting technical and product requirements
  • Experience leading engineering for multi-platform applications (web, Android, and iOS)
  • Experience leading engineering teams building direct-to-consumer applications

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Technical knowledge of large-scale Ruby on Rails applications
  • Experience leading distributed teams
  • Experience working at a multi-product company

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$216,000$235,000 USD

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

The Company will further consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable "Fair Chance" laws. 

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